The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragos...

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activit...

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. ...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of bo...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...
Features volcano watches in Iceland from 1984-91, showing the country's highlands, Askja, Kverkjoll,...